George Deem

The Fauve School

Date:	1989
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	26 x 30 1/2
Size cm:	66.4 x 76.2
Signature:	Signed and dated lower right
Location:	New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.132

Inscribed on the reverse.

Reference
Framed painting above blackboard: Henri Matisse, Madame Matisse, "The Green Line," 1905.
Drawing of woman on blackboard: Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907.
Seated boy by door: Henri Matisse, The Young Sailor II, 1906.
Girl in red dress reading: Henri Matisse, The Reader (Marguerite Matisse), 1906.

Fauvism: a short-lived movement in painting centered on a group of French artists exhibiting together from about 1905 to 1907, and typified by the work of its originator, Henri Matisse. The artists shared their first exhibition at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. Described as "fauves" (wild beasts), their name was given to them by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who pointed to a Renaissance-like sculpture in the same gallery and exclaimed, "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts!).
When I put a green it is not grass, when I put a blue, it is not the sky (Henri Matisse).
Fauve painting is not everything, but it is the foundation of everything (Henri Matisse).

Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

Exhibition date:

September 21 - November 4, 2001

Works Shown:

Art Deco School Ashcan School Bauhaus School Del Sarto, Canaletto, Titian Edward and Jo Hopper:Excursion into Philosophy The Fauve School Figure in a Landscape Fragonard at the Frick (Study 1) Frick Museum Study 1 Hudson River School 1995 La Tour Vermeer Manet Box Study Opened Cube Matisse School of Dance Occidental Rug Painting Perspective Saturday Afternoon, December 2, 1995 School of Arshile Gorky School of Modigliani 2 School of Piero Della Francesca School of Stuart Davis Seven Vermeer Corners The Studio of Jacques-Louis David Tea Time Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, the Lady Removed Vermeer's Music Lesson with the Figures Removed

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:	May 27 - June 26, 2010
Works Shown:	Art Deco School The Fauve School Matisse School of Dance School of Matisse 1 (Study 1) School of Modigliani 2 School of Stuart Davis

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

Exhibition date:	May 12 - July 11 1993
Institution:	Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana
Works Shown:	Ashcan School Barbizon School, The Bauhaus School The Fauve School Hoosier School Hudson River School 1985 L'Ecole de Paris L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts New York School, The School of Athens School of Balthus School of Bingham School of Canaletto 1 School of Canaletto 2 School of Caravaggio School of Chardin School of de Chirico School of Degas School of Eakins School of Georges de La Tour School of Hopper School of Ingres School of Juan Gris School of Mantegna School of Matisse 1 School of Matisse 2 School of Modigliani School of Piero Della Francesca School of Rembrandt School of Sargent School of Stuart Davis School of Thought School of Velazquez School of Vermeer School of Veronese School of Watteau School of Winslow Homer Schoolroom 1979

The Branson School, Ross, California

Exhibition date:	January 23-27,1995
Institution:	The Branson School, Ross, California
Works Shown:	Art Deco School Ashcan School The Fauve School School of Canaletto 2 School of Modigliani 2 School of Piero Della Francesca School of Renoir (Study) School of Stuart Davis School of Veronese

Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition date:

May 27 - July 24, 1994

Works Shown:

Art Deco School Ashcan School The Fauve School Hudson River School 1985 School of Athens School of Balthus School of Bingham School of Caravaggio School of Chardin School of de Chirico School of Eakins School of Gauguin School of Juan Gris School of Modigliani School of Modigliani 2 School of Piero Della Francesca School of Rembrandt School of Stuart Davis School of Velazquez School of Vermeer School of Veronese School of Watteau Schoolroom 1979